What Is To Be Done? Author_Plekhanov argues against the failed reformist

argues against the failed reformist approach and draws the conclusion that only through the workers coming to power and expropriating the oligarchy can we begin to overcome the exploitation and oppression of the masses

the experience of the whole world

Having arrived in London from South Africa only a short time earlier

and the titles of the three parts—philosophy

not as a static immovable reality

What Is To Be Done? Author_Plekhanov argues against the failed reformistThe pamphlet outlined a broad plan of organization in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine. The pamphlet urged the necessity of intensive and tireless efforts to build the foundation that had to be built if the Party was to exist in deeds and not in words (Nadezhda Krupskaya, Reminiscences of Lenin.) First published in early